Re: Secure elements and PC/SC Workgroup Specifications

On Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 11:17 PM, POTONNIEE Olivier wrote:

> Hi Marcos,
> 
> As Anders mentioned PC/SC is the de facto standard on desktop environments to access secure element, as it is present on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
> On Mobile, there is no such universal standard. Each platform developed its own native API:
> - Android:
> https://code.google.com/p/seek-for-android/
> - Windows Phone:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windowsphone/develop/microsoft.phone.secureelement(v=vs.105).aspx
> - BlackBerry:
> http://developer.blackberry.com/native/documentation/core/com.qnx.doc.nfc/topic/manual/t_nfcdevguide_connect_app_on_SIM_SE.html
> (not exhaustive list)
> 
> Of course the W3C secure element API should not be a copy of the PC/SC specifications, which have a wider scope of features than needed by web applications, and is very low level. What we are willing to expose in the SE API is only a subset of PC/SC part 5, through a slightly higher level API.

Thanks Olivier for the additional links and clarifications.  

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Marcos Caceres

Received on Sunday, 29 September 2013 18:42:18 UTC